Publications

magnetic resonance imaging findings in fatal primary cerebral infection due to chaetomium strumarium.	this report describes mri findings of a rare case of biopsy-proven fatal cerebral infection with chaetomium strumarium in a 28-year-old man with a history of i.v. drug abuse. magnetic resonance imaging revealed rapidly progressing lesions with irregular peripheral enhancement, possible central haemorrhage and significant mass effect. only six cases of cerebral infection with chaetomium have been reported in the english literature. this is the first report in the radiology literature describing t ...	2005	15845059
fatal cerebral mycoses caused by the ascomycete chaetomium strumarium.	three cases of fatal cerebral mycosis in males with prior histories of intravenous drug use from the united states and australia are reported. infection in each case was limited to brain abscess; no other sites of infection were observed. the fungus seen by histopathology and isolated from the brain tissue in each case was identified as chaetomium strumarium. this is the first report of human infection by this species, and c. strumarium is the second species of chaetomium known to cause primary ...	1995	8567907